The last days have been big ones for link bashing. Rupert Murdoch accused Google in a speech of "stealing copyrights." Wall Street Journal Managing Editor Robert Thomson called Google and other aggregators “parasites or tapeworms,” charging Google and other unnamed aggregators wi ... Read more
Big academic paper out regarding GOOG options pinning (hat tip Don Fishback ). Here's the abstract. We present the evidence that the GOOGLE stock, one of the most important stocks in the 21st century, may have been illegally controlled by large Wall Street firms. We identify a group of ... Rea ... Read more
An article in today's New York Times describes the evolution of the modern (mostly New York) hedge fund as the markets reshape that industry. There are inevitable euphemisms: a person is not being "laid off," the Times identifies the phrase du jour as "It looks like we’ll ... Read more
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) is up with the broad market today by almost 2%, and shares are completely unphased at all on news that the company is spending $750 million in shares to acquire AdMob. While Google has made many deals, this is aimed to go deeper into the technology for mobile display adv ... Read more
Google (GOOG) has set a deal to distribute its Chrome browser on Sony (SNE) PCs. Google has not had much success in getting computer users to switch from the two dominant browsers which are Microsoft (MSFT) Internet Explorer and Firefox. The partnership between the companies is too small to matter. ... Read more
Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ: GRMN) may still be the leader in its space in the U.S., but the company has become very ‘yesteryear’ for investors. The company recently performed much ‘less-worse’ than expectations and shares soared after earnings, but then it took a key analyst downg ... Rea ... Read more
| Peter Klein | A new item for our “by the numbers” series . Former Google lead designer Doug Bowman recently quit to take a position at Twitter, citing frustration with Google’s engineer-oriented, data-driven culture: When a company is filled with engineers, it turns ... Read the full ... Read more
So I'm watching the Mets game last night and it looks visually....awful. I mean the Stadium looks great, but seats on the lower level near home are virtually empty. At $700 a pop, apparently "real" fans would rather eat the tix than sell under parity or something. Seats beyond that looked ... Read more
Key earnings reports continue through the end of the month. Below we highlight some of the more significant reports expected over the next several days. Historically GOOG and ISRG are some of the more volatile names, and will likely create trading opportunities for those interested ... Read more
There have been a number of news reports recently saying that Microsoft (MSFT) and Yahoo! are back in the process of negotiating a combination of their search businesses to take on the industry leader, Google (GOOG). Since Microsoft is a distant third in US market share with less than 10% by most ... Read more